Malaikottai

Malaikottai
Directed by	Boopathy Pandian
Starring	Vishal Priyamani Ashish Vidyarthi Urvasi Devaraj
Music by	Mani Sharma
Release date(s)	September 28, 2007
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	$2 million
Box office	$6 million

Malaikottai (Tamil: மலைக்கோட்டை; English: Rockfort) is a 2007 Tamil film directed by Boopathy Pandian, who has also directed the movies "Devathaiyai Kanden" and "Thiruvilayadal Arambam", both with Dhanush as the hero. Vishal got the lead role in the film, pairing with Priyamani. The story and screenplay were written by the director himself.

Plot

Anbu (Vishal) is a happy go-lucky guy, who lives with his family in Pattukottai and is having a good time singing energetic fast numbers like Kantha Kadamba.., along with his friends. One day he gets into a fracas with a local politician ('Kathal' Dhandapani) and his comic henchmen while trying to save a friend and is arrested and a case registered against him. The local court gives him conditional bail, provided he signs the register in a Tiruchi police station!

On the way to Trichy police station, he sees a girl on a terrace (Motta madi) drying clothes and falls for her. It is love at first sight for Anbu as he becomes crazy about Malar (Priyamani) a college girl, which leads to some hilarious situations. The police station, where he has to sign daily, is manned by his Chittappa Kanthaswamy (Ashish Vidyarthi), a comic sub-inspector whose ex-lover Kamala (Urvasi) is the lady constable at the station. Anbu kindles the love life of his uncle and makes merry at Malar’s college leading to funny situations.

Meanwhile Trichy City is run by a powerful politician Palani (Devaraj) and his brother Guna (Ajay), who have killed the local RDO in cold blood watched by a huge crowd of onlookers! The brothers continue with their ‘dada giri’, till they clash with a brave heart! He is none other than our Anbu, who while trying to save Malar from a difficult situation ends up getting the wrath of the brothers. Anbu, the one-man army does a good demolition job and cleans up Trichy of all its baddies!

Crew

• Direction: Boopathy Pandian
• Music: Mani Sharma (Tamil and Telugu)
• Action: Kanal Kannan

Soundtrack

Music scored by Mani Sharma. The track Yeh Aatha is a remix of the same-titled song scored by Ilaiyaraaja for the 1982 film Payanangal Mudivathillai.

• Devathaye Vaa Vaa - Vijay Yesudas
• Kantha Kadamba - Naveen
• Oh Baby - Rahul Nambiar
• Uyire Uyire - Ranjith, Rita
• Yeh Aatha - Tippu, Anuradha Sriram

Box-Office performance

The film was a Blockbuster.

Trivia

The film was dubbed into telugu as Bhayya and did average business.

References

2. http://entertainment.oneindia.in/tamil/exclusive/box-office-top-5-251007.html

External links

• watch Malaikottai trailer
• Tamil Actor